Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Saturday, January 05, 2008

HOLY CRAP!!

Hey I'm back!

Shortly after my last post yesterday a tree came down a half block away and knocked all the power lines at a junction down taking out about 50 to 100 houses around me.

Let me tell you it was one cold-ass night! PG&E just hooked everything back up and got power back on about a half hour ago. Luckily the refrig kept stuff just cold enough so it did not need to be trashed.

The furnace has been running steady trying to bring the house temp up from the 58 degrees it was this morning.

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Lucky here being in town, but talking to folks from around the area that still have no power, most rurals have wood stoves so they won't freeze.Glad so-cal made it too, Fernley NV did not fare so well however

I don't get headaches, nor do I have sinus problems, and can count on the fingers of one hand the number of colds I've had in my lifetime (and have one finger uncounted) so I have not tried one. But, I sure would if I needed to.

Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, New York, consists of four 225 foot high mounds on about 3.5 square miles of land. It’s one of the few manmade things, aside from China’s Great Wall, that can be seen from outer space.

Staten Islanders wanted the landfill closed for many years because of the smell and disease that came with the garbage. Fresh Kills did close in March, 2001, but reopened for debris from the WorldTradeCenter before closing again.

Professor Steven Handel, director of the Center for Urban Restoration Ecology, is working with the soil and believes that in time the landfill will again have meadows, forests, and marshes; the garbage contained under a plastic or heavy clay cap.

Henry David Thoreau wrote, “In wilderness is the preservation of the world.” We can preserve and restore God’s good earth. Recycle. Compost. Live simply.

The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad, the desert shall rejoice and blossom. (Isaiah 35:1)

Compassionate Creator, remind us that we need wilderness here on this amazing planet of Yours – our home.

Something occurred to me, Obama yakked incessantly about cutting his "organizing" teeth by helping out-of-work steelworkers in his neighborhood, city, and state.

Yet, The Steelworkers' Union endorsed John Edwards.

Obama is the only top-tier Democratic candidate who has not been endorsed by a national union.

I asked my brother, the union guy, for his opinion on this and he said, "Union workers are not interested in pretty language and hot air. Edwards and Clinton understand workers' issues. Obama doesn't."

Obama needs more substance in his speeches. The right wing Nazi media want Obama to be the nominee because they know he will be beaten in the general election.

Obama to date has been given a free ride on criticism. We need to scrutinize his plan for a better Nazi America.

The bunched up primaries may have Obama as the nominee without much scrutiny. By then it will be too late.

Hillary comes across as another Hitler Bush. She voted for the war and she kept funding the war. Where has her voice been regarding the miserable treatment of American soldiers? What only separates Hitler Bush and Hillary is centered around the observation that Hillary wears panties and a bra and Hitler Bush wears a diaper and Depends. He is known as bunnypants.

Force is always a confession of failure. "Jesus resisted evil with an intensity which revealed the uselessness and irrelevance of violence, and this resistance of love constitutes the Christian revolution." - James W. Douglass. The weakness of violence lies in its impotence to convince the opponent to accept the truth of one's position. "To force the opponent to yield to our own truth is only a confession of its inherent impotence to convince him in mind and heart. Or rather, it is a confession of our failure to employ the force of truth, which force alone can effect the conversion we are in reality seeking through the blind desperation of violence." - James W. Douglass.

Lacking compelling reasons for those we wish to control to accept our dominance, we use white phosphorous to make our points. In doing this, we violate not only "their" nature, but our own as well: "Non-violence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law - the strength of the spirit." - Gandhi.

These considerations lead us to conclude that if we care about life, justice, children, we must, in defiance of whatever we are told by those in authority, pledge ourselves to oppose all wars."

"To take the point a level deeper than the lie of propaganda, one can affirm that it is the truth of man himself which is violated in war, that truth which has the power to achieve justice without violence." - James W. Douglass.

Give me the courage, Lord, to accept non-violence as the foundation of my personal, social, and political commitments. Let the seed of love grow within me until it encompasses the whole world.

"Peacemaking is not only a central characteristic of the Gospel, peacemaking is the greatest need of the world today. We are the daughters and sons of God, and that means we are called to be peacemakers." Phillip Berrigan

Robert Bruno, a professor at the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said Obama may be a victim of his desire to be a "transformative politician" -- someone who appeals to people in all demographics.

Obama's been trying "to avoid the claim he's just like any other politician, so he doesn't come off as a real advocate," Bruno said. "But I think the labor movement wants an advocate, because you're talking significant resources and investment."

Organized labor put more than $60 million into the 2004 national elections, a figure that likely will be eclipsed by the end of the 2008 elections.

The fact that he's black has nothing to do with Obama's lack of union endorsements, said Richard Hurd, professor of labor studies at Cornell University. Almost 80 percent of union members in the United States are white.

"Forty years ago, a totally different story. Twenty years ago, a mixed bag. Today, I don't think there's any chance it has anything to do with it," Hurd said.

In fact, Hurd thinks race could help Obama. Almost 15 percent of black workers are union members, compared with almost 12 percent of white workers and 10 percent of Hispanic workers.

"Unions actually have more success organizing blacks and Latinos than they do white people," Hurd said. "That would be something that would tempt them into endorsing Obama, because most unions have a very high priority on recruiting new members. So I think if race came into play here, it would be in Obama's favor rather than against him."

...and Huck's also got that hidden meanness that preachers often keep hidden from the public. Then one day it sneaks out big time....sometimes with their wives, maybe their daughters, or even strangers...

I just lost a post. What I wanted to say to Micki is your brother's comments echo Winke's comments yesterday about Obama.

Let's see, where did his quote go:

Edwards and Clinton understand workers' issues. Obama doesn't.

Exactly our point. The cotton candy of Obama's fluff. Same holds true about climate crisis issues. Nowhere will you find an Obama utterance of any substance on this. Nothing, no acknowledgement he has even a small understanding of the crisis.

That boat, wow. Hey, I know it's late but tomorrow anyone can answer this, Den, meaning you, of course. I heard last night that American Airlines announced it would allow placement of anti-missile technology on board some of its planes as part of some forced government "request". It's a test to see if it works. That is all I can report.

I heard last night that American Airlines announced it would allow placement of anti-missile technology on board some of its planes as part of some forced government "request". It's a test to see if it works.

I read that article in the paper earlier today (saturday). They are gonna put it on 3 planes, none of which carry passengers, to test the reliability of the units. They are rated for x-amount of hours of use, but can they last exposed to the elements, the touchdowns, etc... and keep their maintenance schedules. Will they HOLD UP with regular use, in other words. I beleive they are only good against heat-seeking missles, which rules out some others that are just as deadly. A TOW missle, for example, tho used mostly on tanks 'n stuff, is wire-guided... sending back to the shooter a tv picture that he uses to keep it on target. Get close enough to the airport with one of those, and it would be like shooting VERY BIG skeet (clay pidgeons).

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